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Taxonomic group: bees and wasps (Aculeata) - County data

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Essex Red Data List commentcleptoparasite

Species textSphecodes reticulatus is a very local cuckoo bee that has probably declined with post-1970 records for about twentyfive sites (Falk 1991b). It is confined to the southern England from Devon to E. Kent and N. to Norfolk. In Essex all records are from the East Thames Corridor and Thames Terrace habitat near Colchester. It has been found in a variety of habitats on light soils such as sandy heathland, soft rock cliffs, sandpits and chalk grassland. The host species is unconfirmed, but Lasioglossum prasinum, Andrena argentata (both species not recorded in Essex), A. dorsata and A. barbilabris are possibilities (Falk 1991b). References